Adjustable stove-caster



(No Mdel.)

H. FUHRMAN 8v A. RUSGHE.

ADJUSTABLE STOVE GASTER.

Patented Oct. 21,1884.A

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HENRY FUI-IRMAN AND AUGUST RUSCHE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE STOVE-CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,036, dated October 21, 1884.

Application filed October 1, 1883. (No model.)

T 0 'all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY FUHRMAN and AUcUsr Resol-In, citizens of the United States, and residi-ng at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Stovellegs, which is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which# Figure l is a side elevation of a stove-leg, showing the caster applied. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken at the line x m, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the caster-bracket made separate from the leg, so that it can be attached to and detached therefrom. Fig. 4 is a side view of said bracket 5 and Fig. 5 shows a bottom view of the stove with wires connecting the legs together to hold them in place in the stove when the stove is moved.

Our invention relates to stove-legs, and more especially to those which have adjustable casters attached; and the object is, in the first place, to provide a convenient means for raising the stove so that it sha-ll rest upon the casters and lowering it so that the legs shall rest directly on the floor; and, secondly, to provide a simple and efficacious means of securing the legs in their places under the stove when the latter istrundled about on its casters.

Our invent-ion consists in the mechanisms, hereinafter fully described, for accomplishing the above purposes. v

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a stove-leg, B, alug east with the stoveleg. C is a screw-threaded hole in said lug.

D is a screw-threaded shank of the caster, the lower end of which is swiveled in the block E of the caster in such manner that the shank D can be turned and screwed up or down in the lug B without turning the caster-wheel.

F is a caster-wheel, journaled in the block E in the usual manner.

XVe make the lower portion, G, of the castershank D ofsuch shape as to receivefa wrench or otherl suitable utensil by which it can be turned and screwed up or down in the lug B, so as to cause the caster to take the weight of the stove or other article and be supported by the casters; or when it is supported by the casters it can be relieved from its support, allowing the legs A to take the weight of the stove.

It will be observed that the lug B may be cast in a bracket, II, with suitable screw-holes or other analogous means for attaching the bracket to the legs ofthe article to which it is desired to apply the adjustable caster.

I are wires extending from the lugs B across under the stove from one stove-leg to the other, to hold them in place and prevent their falling out when the stove is being moved on itscasters.

J are small holes in the lugs B, through which the wires I pass, for the purpose of connecting the legs together under the stove.

IVe are aware that stove-legs have been provided with casters adjustable in height previ` ously to our invention 5 but in every such instance the caster has either been arranged under the leg so that the stove cannot be let down to rest directly on its legs without taking o the casters, or the easter has been incapable of revolving horizontally on its shank, so that in attempting to raise or lower it an extremes ly inconvenient friction, caused by the turning of the caster on the iioor, has necessarily resulted. By arranging the caster so that it can be adjusted to a position above the bottom of the leg, and at the same time giving it an axial revolution on its shank, we make it perfectlypracticable to transfer the support of 8o the stove from caster to leg, and vice versa, without friction and without taking the device apart.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The stove-leg provided with the laterally projecting lug B, having a threaded aperture, C, the correspondingly-threaded caster-shank D, spindleshaped at its lower end, and having immediately above the spindle portion a portion, G, shaped to receive a wrench, the caster-block E, socketed to correspond with the spindle portion of the shank, and the caster-wheel F, journaled on the caster-block, the lug B being arranged at a height above the buse o' tho stove-log grenier than the agtho stovo when boing nlo'vod7 us .spocifod und gregate height of the Custer 'E F and the porshown. tion G of the shank, all in combination, sub- A stantially as and for the purpose des'crbed. 5 2. The combination of the stove-legs having i Vitncsses:

lugs. B, and Wires I, adapted to hook into holes V. C. CORLIES, in Jfhe lugs and hold the legs iu place under G. Il. FULKNER.

HENRY- FUHRMAN'. AUGUST RUSCHE. 

